Perhaps compared to a homeless shelter. But a percentage of the homeless hate shelters and will not use them. In Michigan every year when it gets down to zero they find guys frozen to death in a doorway.
I think in volume the cost can come down. As nice as the idea of solar is if you remove it and just plug into the city mains the cost of producing the units can come down.
Right now the demand is there or the governments wouldn't be building them. So you have a potential startup idea that is already at product-market-fit.
I think the solar panel is a good example of the lack of forward thinking / not caring about the people who would use it / PR.
But the costs are not the shelter itself.
> Right now the demand is there or the governments wouldn't be building them.
No, it's a pilot that ticks boxes, not to say it won't work, but you can't tell if it is a working system.
How do you clean them? How do you have security? What happens when people depend on them but they are broken.
I like the fact they can hold two people, that's humane. But will society accept the prostitution it will bring. Will the 'box' change the psychology and cause lethal attacks.
The solutions needed here are processes over things. Sometimes things can allow a process change. But you'd need to see a non fluff report to see if this does that. It's hard to see it working when people have tried to do similar with tents and they don't seem to work.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 23.0 ms ] threadreminds me of Neuromancer "coffins"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
I think in volume the cost can come down. As nice as the idea of solar is if you remove it and just plug into the city mains the cost of producing the units can come down.
Right now the demand is there or the governments wouldn't be building them. So you have a potential startup idea that is already at product-market-fit.
But the costs are not the shelter itself.
> Right now the demand is there or the governments wouldn't be building them.
No, it's a pilot that ticks boxes, not to say it won't work, but you can't tell if it is a working system.
How do you clean them? How do you have security? What happens when people depend on them but they are broken.
I like the fact they can hold two people, that's humane. But will society accept the prostitution it will bring. Will the 'box' change the psychology and cause lethal attacks.
The solutions needed here are processes over things. Sometimes things can allow a process change. But you'd need to see a non fluff report to see if this does that. It's hard to see it working when people have tried to do similar with tents and they don't seem to work.